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One blog log is good; two is freakin’ fantastic. Enjoy.

Posted by “Paulie’s Point of view” on Pauliespointofview.blogspot.com

The City of Worcester has a huge upside such as all the incredible intelligensia institutions, easy access to major hwys, and close proximity to incredible rural experiences such as Wachusett Mtn & Quabbin Reservoir that I really enjoy with my pooch Buddy the Beagle.

The “Urban Stimulation” is limited to a lot of new restaurants and pubs but the museums are spread out within areas that nothing of interest abuts and there are few if any locations where one can go to to hear poetry readings, buy a book or magazine, listen to a street musician or entertainer….one just does not feel the aura of a college town like one feels in Boston, Cambridge & Somerville..the campuses there are beehives of activity..the students roam about the cities making their mark like my beagle does on the tree outfront:&gt and an incredible amount of business sprout up offering up that “Urban Simulation” that urban dwellars (modern day urban dwellars) need to survive:&gt

So why am I here..excellent question?

I’ll follow up on that question in future blogs..there are many positive responses to this question:&gt

Posted by “Mike O’Risal” on vyoma108.blogspot.com

Still, I realize that there are people in this country who disagree with my point of view, so let’s assume for a moment that the parents were right. Their faith simply wasn’t strong enough to save their daughter’s life. If you’re a fundamentalist parent contemplating praying over a critically ill child instead of getting them medical treatment, how do you know if your faith is strong enough before you turn your offspring into worm-food?

Lucky you, finding Hyphoid Logic today! I have a simple test you can take.

First, you’ll need a handgun. A .22 will do, but I suggest using a snub-nosed .44 if you can get one.

Now, find a quiet room and sit with your back against a wall. Pray just as hard as you can. When you feel all prayed out, make sure you’ve taken the safety off and put the muzzle of the gun in your mouth. Make sure that the barrel is pointed up, toward your cranium. We have to be sure.

Pull the trigger.

If you can’t pull the trigger, you know that your faith isn’t strong enough. If you don’t know wth certainty that God is going to stop that bullet from blowing your head off, there’s no way your prayers are going to save your kid.

If you do pull the trigger and note a sudden proliferation of brain and skull fragments in your vicinity, congratulations! You’ve just been diagnosed with the sin of pride. Your faith wasn’t strong enough, even though you thought it was. God hasn’t stopped the bullet. You’re dead and have likely stopped reading this. Good luck seeking pardon in the afterlife or whatever it is that happens to people who pray themselves to death. You may at least rest assured that your child will get appropriate medical attention when the authorities show up to investigate the death scene.

If and only if you pull the trigger and hear the gun discharge but are still alive and uninjured afterward may you deny medical attention to your child and instead rely on prayer for a cure. You have staked your life on the strength of your faith and passed the test. You can do whatever you want; if your faith can stop that bullet, it can also cure the child.

If you think this all sounds completely stupid - and I agree that it does - then you MUST take your child for medical treatment. Those unwilling to take this test but who still deny treatment are nothing but murderers if that child dies based on your willingness to risk his or her life but not your own.

Posted by “jgeary27″ on railroad.net
Kids… this is looney tunes. I’m kind of afraid of my local Worcester buddy-made-good Tim Murray. I thought he had a better grip on reality than this. As we’ve covered extensively here, the issues w/commuter rail on the Worcester line has almost nothing to do with CSX. It has to do with a lack of investment by the state and the MBTA. Yet for some bizarre reason the state insists on trying to make CSX the “bad guy” in the negotiations, which CSX properly resents… and now they are trying to play the same game with NB/FR? This is degenerating into insanity.

Oh, wait, Mass. politics…

Yeah, everything seems normal.
Posted by “The Unicow” on progressivefitchburg.blogspot.com
As is often the case, I’ve been readings bits of the Sentinel & Enterprise today. I only do this a few times a week, because normally it’s an infuriating process. Editorials full of pointless liberal-bashing, horribly biased articles, etc. It’s enough to drive one mad.

But today something seemed different. I read editorials and found myself agreeing with many of them! Even more amazing, they seemed to be better-written than what I’ve seen in the past!

On top of that, the articles weren’t all stupid! What’s going on?

Well, I do know that they have a new publisher. And he started on March 17th (so a week ago). Here’s the Google cache of the article about him, since it’s been moved into the S&E’s archive of stuff you can’t read.

I haven’t worked in the newspaper industry, so I don’t actually know how much influence a publisher has on content or style, and I have no idea if he’s responsible for this week of relative respectability. Perhaps he’s the impetus for the paper turning around. Or maybe the writers are just on their best behavior right now because they have a new boss, and things will go back downhill.

Whatever the case, I hope it keeps up.

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